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Posted on 01/30/2024 By: Sean Crose Shakur Stevenson has apparently decided to single handedly lower the retirement age by calling it a career at the ripe old age of 26. “I’m officially retiring from the sport of boxing,” he posted to social media early Tuesday morning. “I’ll be in the gym forever perfecting my craft

Posted on 01/30/2024 By: Sean Crose Ryan Garcia was planning on facing junior welterweight king Devin Haney. Then he spoke with Floyd Mayweather. “I’m hanging out with Floyd,” the 25 year old star told Fight Hype in an interview posted on Tuesday. “I’m not going to lie, Floyd’s pretty influential. He’s like why would you

Posted on 01/31/2024 By: Sean Crose It’s been a long time since Keith Thurman has been in a boxing ring. Then again, the onetime WBA welterweight champ doesn’t box all that frequently as a general rule. Indeed, the Floridian has only fought three times in the last five years. Although he’s faced his share of

Posted on 02/01/2024 By: Sean Crose Conor Benn may not be able to fight in his British homeland, but that’s not keeping him from squaring off against  the relatively unknown Peter Dobson in Las Vegas. Although the welterweight battle will go down late in the afternoon on Saturday in order to to be seen in

Posted on 02/02/2024 By: Sean Crose It looked like there would finally be a new king of the heavyweight division. After what seemed like an eternity, a new undisputed champion would emerge when WBC titlist Tyson Fury took on WBA, WBO, and IBF titlist Oleksandr Usyk later this month in Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately, it was

Posted on 02/03/2024 By: Sean Crose The enigmatic 22-0 welterweight Conor Benn looked to showcase his skills Saturday in a scheduled 12 round affair broadcast live from Las Vegas by DAZN . His opponent was the little known but undefeated 16-0 Peter Dobson. Whereas Britain’s Benn looked to impress, New York’s Dobson looked to shock

Posted on 01/19/2024 By: Sean Crose “No way, Sugar Ray” read the cover headline. Alongside those words – staring right at me at the Walden Bookstore in Waterbury’s Naugatuck Valley Mall – was the one and only Roberto Duran. I’m not sure a chill went down my nine year old spine at that exact moment,

Posted on 01/22/2024 By: Sean Crose “To be honest I believe that is the hardest test,” WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol says of fellow light heavyweight titlist Artur Beterbiev. “Why? Because he is stronger. I know that he is physically stronger than Canelo (Alvarez).” Considering the fact that Bivol defeated then pound for pound

Posted on 01/20/2024 By: Sean Crose Natasha Jonas was able to hold on to the IBF welterweight title on Saturday when she won a close and rather controversial split decision over former American titlist Mikaela Mayer. “I thought I did enough to win,” Mayer stated afterward. ” I outpunched her and outworked her, landing clean

Posted on 01/23/2024 By: Sean Crose Sadam Ali. Liam Smith. Gary O’Sullivan. Gabriel Rosado. Sergiy Derevyanchenko. These are not the biggest names in boxing. They are, however, the names of notable boxers who have plied their trade over the last ten years at least. And they’ve all been defeated by Jaime Munguia. Indeed, the now

Posted on 01/08/2024 By: Sean Crose Virgil Ortiz’ return to the ring against Fredrick Lawson on Saturday took a strange turn when referee Tony Weeks abruptly stopped the fight. While it was true that Lawson was taking a beating at the moment, he didn’t appear to be a finished man. Even in a sport where

Posted on 01/09/2024 By: Sean Crose You’ve got to credit former welterweight world titlist Errol Spence for being an honest man. In a world where it’s more acceptable to pout and say you were robbed than honestly admitting you’ve been bested, Spence came clean Tuesday on social media. Starting off by responding to lame criticism

Posted on 01/10/2024   Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz By: Sean Crose “Hate it or love it I’m just that guy,” welterweight conqueror Terence Crawford stated in a lengthy thread on Twitter Wednesday. “Anytime a fighter opens they mouth my name in it, so what does that tell you?” Crawford went on to address

Posted on 01/11/2024 By: Sean Crose Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather have never been enormous fans of one another. Going back to the time even before the superfight the two men engaged in over fifteen years ago, there was tension, if not outright hostility, between the two. Mayweather, who ended up winning the

Posted on 01/12/2024 By: Sean Crose “I’ve never seen snow like we’re seeing here,” Callum Smith told Ariel Helwani on Wednesday in the leadup to his light heavyweight title fight this weekend in Quebec. He’s going to have his work cut out for him on Saturday, for his opponent will be the feared Artur Beterbiev.

Posted on 01/14/2024 By: Sean Crose Former titlist Callum Smith, 29-1, stepped into the ring in Quebec on Saturday night to take on the 19-0 WBC, IBF, and WBO light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev in an ESPN broadcast main event scheduled for 12. Beterbiev started whacking at his man right off the bat in the

Posted on 01/15/2024 By: Sean Crose It was supposed to be an easy fight, a figurative walk in the park, if you will. Tyson Fury, regarded as one of the greatest heavyweight champions ever in some circles after three powerhouse performances against American sledgehammer Deontay Wilder, would unquestionably steamroll former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou

Posted on 01/16/2024 By: Sean Crose If anyone knows how good a fighter Oleksandr Usyk is, it’s former WBA, WBO, and IBF heavyweight titlist Anthony Joshua. The towering Englishman was reportedly set to fight countryman Tyson Fury for the undisputed heavyweight championship back in 2021, but an American judge ruled that Fury had to fight